How former lawyer Sara Rodriguez built her own multistate empire

This former attorney ditched her corporate job to start her own company, Titan Title, which has grown to five states in six years. Rick Guerrero sits down with Rodriguez to learn her success formula.

Rocket Homes off the hook as Trump’s CFPB drops lawsuits

RESPA complaint that accused Rocket Homes of favoring real estate agents who steered clients to Rocket Mortgage is dismissed “without prejudice” by CFPB’s new leadership.

Rocket offering renters up to $5K in closing credits

RocketRentRewards lets homebuyers earn closing cost credits equal to 10 percent of their verified rent payments over the past year, or $2,160 for those paying the average $1,800 in rent.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s net worths climb past $154B

While plans to privatize the mortgage giants are on the back burner, Trump administration may impose limits on how much support the mortgage giants can provide to riskier borrowers.

Better waiving $995 origination fee for repeat mortgage customers

“Better Forever” incentive is not offered on HELOCs, nor to borrowers who apply through third-party platforms like LendingTree, CreditKarma, Bankrate or Nerdwallet.

Cash offer pioneer Evergreen Home Loans expands to Southeast

Partnerships with real estate agents and builders laid the groundwork for the foray into Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee led by former Guild Mortgage exec John Porath.

Fed pauses rate cuts, continues mortgage ‘quantitative tightening’

Trump wants lower rates. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says he’s not spoken to the President, and that “we don’t need to be in a hurry to adjust the policy stance.”

Wells Fargo is about to emerge from the regulatory woods

Once the nation’s largest home lender, Wells Fargo could be poised for a comeback in the mortgage business this year as it continues to make progress in addressing regulators’ concerns about its past practices.

Trump nominates homebuilder scion to oversee Fannie, Freddie

The grandson of PulteGroup founder William J. Pulte, Bill Pulte is a private equity CEO, philanthropist and Trump loyalist with 3 million followers on X.